Would physicians ever breach patient confidentiality?

Most physicians would breach patient confidentiality if they knew that a patient’s health status could harm others, according to the Medscape Ethics Report 2014, Part 2: Money, Romance and Patients.

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Here are the responses that the respondents gave:

 

•    Yes — 66 percent
•    No — 12 percent
•    It depends — 22 percent

 

The survey polled more than 17,000 physicians.

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